Traveller Gene

The Traveller Gene: Most people (indeed, whole species) never leave their homeworld: they never venture out of their gravity well, content to work, play, and even thrive on their home planet. Some postulate that there is a genetic basis for the drive of some (and the lack of drive in others) to reach beyond the bounds of a single world into the greater universe: a Traveller Gene. [1]

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Many, perhaps most, sophont species are composed of great demographic masses with little motivation to do more than eat, sleep, reproduce, and otherwise survive. Very successful sophontsocieties learn to encourage, foster, and otherwise support the members of their society who want to do more, who have that drive to succeed.

Travellers travel. They move between worlds as well as on their surfaces. The distances such travel covers may be interplanetary or interstellar in scale. [2]

Yaskoydray is a legendary figure to the Droyne and a little known and mythical figure to the other races. Before the present greater civilization of Charted Space existed, it is widely believed that Yaskoydray led a burgeoning space empire. And then he (maybe she?) disappeared... Some say that he was slain in the Final War, but no one really knows except perhaps the Droyne and they are not telling.